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I've never heard any of this before. There is a Ray of Light "Demo Assembly" promotional disc floating around that has never leaked in full, but somebody uploaded clips and posted them to YouTube yesterday. These were allegedly recorded between April 6th and June 6th 1997. It's crazy hearing this stuff before Orbit became involved and also how inclined she was initially to continue with the Bedtime Stories/Something to Remember sound.

I find it interesting that several of the unreleased songs are romantically themed, when the final RoL album is not really a broken heart record, as much as it is a philosophical and reflective record, from a subject matter perspective. It's so neat to get insight into the evolution of a great record.

She doesn't really have that many B-sides and rarities, when it comes down to it. And who knows who has the rights to what in terms of her catalog.

I'd be interested in a compilation of unreleased songs--she's had some great ones over the years, although artists don't seem to release compilations of unreleased material very frequently, so I doubt this will ever happen. In particular, I've loved "Liquid Love," "Run," "Like a Flower" and her covers of "If You Go Away" and "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room." I have a bunch of her unreleased Rebel Heart songs and haven't really dug into them since there were so many songs that actually were released from that era. I should probably give them another spin ...